{"title":"Positionality and intersectionality in environmental debates: duoethnography as a method to know (from) the margins.","authors":"Jose A Cañada, Joaquín Valdivielso","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118","DOIUrl":"10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Balearic Islands (Spain) are one of the main tourist destinations in the world. Since the 1950s, the tourism industry has had a considerable impact on the environment, resulting in a strong tradition of environmental activism. Balearic environmental movements have engaged in the production of knowledge and technical evidence to sway debates for legislation in favor of protecting the environment. We argue that the limited involvement of migrant populations in such movements reflects the class and ethnolinguistic barriers that inform the creation of human-environment attachments. Our work reveals two methodological precarities: the lack of access in migrant populations to know the environment and our own capacity to track such histories. To tackle them, we rely on duoethnography as a method, using our own intergenerational experiences as descendants of migrants as empirical material. With them, we reflect on how our participation in public debates is mediated by our positionality as determined by the intersection of class, ethnic, and linguistic identities. Using the notion of environmentality, we illustrate the onto-epistemic openings and limits linked to identity that historically characterize environmental struggles, in turn showing the potential of duoethnography to contribute to scholarly debates in contexts of methodological precarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7619158/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148253626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
André Sica de Campos, David Tyfield, Leonardo Freire de Mello, Brian Garvey
{"title":"Sweet dreams? Testing prognostics and reinterpreting sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil.","authors":"André Sica de Campos, David Tyfield, Leonardo Freire de Mello, Brian Garvey","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2024.2398950","DOIUrl":"10.1080/25729861.2024.2398950","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present a framework regarding analysis of, and engagement with, socio-technical innovations and power/knowledge trajectories for sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil, testing post hoc our prognostics against recent factual evidence. This assessment offers evidence regarding the value of such analysis, given the relative rarity of research that revisits anticipated changes in Science and Technology Studies. Contending that learning and improving our forms of engaged analysis demands such retrospective assessment, we report results of a 2014/2015 study on sugarcane ethanol biofuel and automobility in Brazil. In this study, we analyze the discourse of a \"responsible research and innovation\" (RRI) perspective and confirm particular trends in Brazil.</p>","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":"7 1","pages":"2398950"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12269897/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144660666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge mobilization in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) researchers: an approach to the Mexican national health system","authors":"J. C. García-Cruz, J. A. Oliveira Vera-Cruz","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2023.2232042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2023.2232042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":"22 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139005713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia Marques Dalla Costa, Vanessa Flores dos Santos, Eleandra Raquel da Silva Koch
{"title":"Changes in the landscape, threats, and the struggle of the quilombola communities from Alto Trombetas for their territories","authors":"Julia Marques Dalla Costa, Vanessa Flores dos Santos, Eleandra Raquel da Silva Koch","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2023.2278866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2023.2278866","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study addresses landscape changes in the quilombola territories of the communities Alto Trombetas 1 and 2, on the banks of the Trombetas River. It also points out transformations that have taken place since the creation of federal conservation units and the installation of bauxite mining activities in the region. The production and management of overlaps involves a heterogeneous network of state actors, artifacts, and socio-technical apparatuses that materialize interventions in the landscape, in a web of government bodies, norms, and a discourse favorable to progress and profit. This overlap has made the communities organize themselves against the invasion of their lands and struggle constantly to give visibility to the effects of mining and conservation units. We conclude that the history of questionable interventions from different sectors of the state has compromised the coexistence of quilombola territories with other lives in the region. Also, the lack of monitoring and studies focused on the effects of mining on quilombola communities shows how environmental racism falls upon racialized bodies and territories. However, quilombola communities continue to resist in their ancestral territories.","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":"8 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138980863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seminal ideas for old and new problems in Latin America: José Medina Echavarría and his legacy","authors":"Laura Angélica Moya López","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2023.2275811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2023.2275811","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":"54 43","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138588264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scalar dissonances, knowledge-making, sense of urgency, and social narratives about the future. Contours of the climate change debate in Latin America","authors":"Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2023.2278839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2023.2278839","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":"54 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new history of sociology? Southern perspectives","authors":"Stéphane Dufoix, Hon-Fai Chen","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2023.2285643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2023.2285643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":"44 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138593474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karl Marx in Brazil: the reading capital of\u0000 Capital\u0000 (1958–2014)","authors":"Lidiane Soares Rodrigues","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2023.2267574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2023.2267574","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":"27 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}